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Scooby-Doo! curse of the lake monster

2010
Scooby-Doo and the kids from Mystery, Inc., head for Erie Pointe to work as waiters and caddies at Daphne's uncle's golf club, but when a rumored lake monster shows up and begins to terrorize the grounds, the team scrambles to solve the mystery before the monster destroys the club.

The secret of Gumbo Grove

1987
While helping restore the cemetery of the old Baptist church, eleven-year-old Raisin solves the mystery surrounding the founding of her home town and gains pride in her family's past.

Live bait

Fearless FBI #2
2005
Gaia and her roommate, Catherine, are given temporary FBI badges in order to hunt down a murderer whom they saw committing the crime.

Assassin

Betrayal
2004
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, must solve a murder mystery and clear the name of her betrothed. In Book 2, Betrayal, Lady Grace finds herself in the midst of a battle at sea while posing as a boy aboard the ship of Francis Drake, where she and Masou stowed away in hopes of finding the kidnapped Lady Sarah.

Wolf rider

a tale of terror
1988
After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.

Encyclopedia Brown gets his man

1993
Ten brief cases in which the reader pits his wits against those of Encyclopedia Brown, an ingenious ten-year-old detective.

Chicagoland Detective Agency

Night of the living dogs
2012
When Megan, Raf, and talking dog Bradley get their first real case, they find themselves tracking a puppy that is not as adorable as it seems, and trying to end an ancient curse.

Chasing the jaguar

2006
After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of curanderas--Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.

Murder on The Canadian

a Tom Austen mystery
2000
Tom Austen, an aspiring detective, unravels a murder mystery while on a three-day transcontinental journey aboard "The Canadian.".

The hunted

2000
The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and becomes involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.

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